Monday, December 19, 2011

FCCB #91 - Trimming It With A Tag

Happy Monday, everyone!! I hope you had a great weekend!! The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is: "Trimming It With A Tag"...use a tag somewhere on your project. I was so excited for this challenge since I avidly followed the 12 Tags of Christmas by Tim Holtz! I am always so inspired when I see the incredible techniques he uses, and I want to recreate them but don't have the materials he has at my disposal ;) For my project, I used techniques from his 2010 12 Tags of Christmas.

I cut a tag at 6" from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More from Core'dinatons canvas paper. I ran the tag through the Tim Holtz Sizzez Tall Pines embossing folder and I using the technique of stamping swirls directly on the folder before I embossed (I LOVE this technique!!). I then used distress ink in Broken China and Weathered Wood for the background. For the trees, I used Forest Moss and Vintage Photo distress inks. I distressed the edges and then inked with Walnut distress Ink. I cut the deer from the Christmas Solutions cart and inked the edges with Walnut ink. I cut floral leaves from the Tim Holtz Regal Crest Bigz Dies to wrap around the neck and then tied it off with a red bow. I used Tim Holtz music tape to create the banner along the bottom. "Believe" are chipboard letters I had in my stash. I inked them first with Fired Brick distress ink and then when the ink dried, I stamped with a Tim Holtz letters stamp in black Archival Ink. The ribbon is from Michaels and I added a crystal Tim Holtz ornament.

The tag is a Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Rectangles Die and I cut it from a Tim Holtz journal tag. I inked the edges with Fired Brick Distress ink and used stamps from K Andrew Designs' Winter Wishes Set:

Click HERE to purchase your own set of these stamps! All of the techniques I used for this tag can be found on the Tim Holtz website. If you have never visited his website, I strongly encourage you to do so...his projects are simply fabulous and you will be amazed!! Here is the Tim tag from 2010 that I used for my main inspiration:

Don't forget to enter into my K Andrew Designs Sympathic Saying stamp set giveaway HERE! I will pick a winner on Thursday! Thanks so much for stopping by today!! I hope you have a wonderful week!! :)

28 comments:

Beautiful tag. I am looking forward to crafting when we return from our mini vacation tonight. I will be sure to check out the Tim Holtz site. I am eager to learn some new techniques during Winter Break.

Your tag turned out beautiful Lisa.Love the fabulous details including the music tissue tape.I have all my Tim things out ready to play....but haven't made it into my room for days!!!Merry Christmas my sweet friend.Jayne x

Lisa, this tag turned out just beautiful! I love all the distressed inking to give it that aged look. The deer and tree cuts are fabulous-I really enjoy Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas and so inspired just not a lot of time right now to go create:( I am hoping real soon..Have an eawesome day!!Sherrie Khttp://sherriescraps.blogspot.com

Ok Lisa this is just fabulous!! I did check him out and the tags were fabulous. I didn't know about it until the end, so I was thinking of trying to create some of them throughout the year and save them for next year (I always say this:))Hope your week is great and if I don't get the chance.....have a very happy holidays and I hope it is amazing and beautiful memories are made!Big hugs!Shelly

My sweet friend, this is gorgeous! (Am I allowed to say I like yours better than Tim's? Because I do! I love how you have music frolicking across the deer!) So many techniques and elements here, yet all create such a beautiful scene together. I love the oodles of inking and that gorgeous embossing. Everything is lovely as always, Lisa. The music tape is beautiful, too. I am sorry I was largely MIA for a couple of weeks, but there was a family emergency I've been tending to. I am so happy I was able to visit tonight... I've missed you! I hope you have a beautiful and sparkly Christmas, my dear friend! (I just checked again... yep... still love yours best.) ;)

Absolutely gorgeous Lisa!!! I love all the details to this!! Thank you so much for your sweet comments on my blog, and I too, value our friendship. You're such a sweetie!! I hope you and yours have a fantastic Christmas and a blessed New Year!! Lauriescrapsbysissy.blogspot.comPS It actually took me about 2 1/2 days to bake all those goodies!! :)

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